« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: made a doohicky  (Read 5160 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mspink

  • Member
  • Posts: 213
made a doohicky
« on: March 11, 2012, 09:38:28 pm »
Hey guys made this contraption today to make more bows in the early stages without giving myself a hernia. Its ugly but does the trick, plus, had a couple 2X's layin round anyway.  Enjoy
Logged
Aim small miss small!

Offline Dictionary

  • Member
  • Posts: 717
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 10:00:49 pm »
Got a footrest and everything haha, very nice
Logged
"I started developing an eye for those smooth curves as a young man.  Now that my hair is greying and my middle spreading I make bows instead."

-JW_Halverson

Offline Youngboyer2(billyf)

  • Member
  • Posts: 487
  • Live by the man-née and the sa-wa.
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2012, 10:11:54 pm »
That would make for an awesome buildalong
Logged
"You speak Treason!" "Fluently"-Robin of Locksley
When people ask "why didn't you do that the first time" you can be sure that they  have never made a bow before.

Offline bbs383ci

  • Member
  • Posts: 18
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2012, 10:27:21 pm »
Quote from: Youngboyer2 on March 11, 2012, 10:11:54 pm
That would make for an awesome buildalong

i agree good job looks like it works great sure beats the heck out of clamping the stave to a work bench and jerking the bench all over lol
Logged

Offline osage outlaw

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,962
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2012, 10:36:22 pm »
Looks like it works.  I would need a 2x12 for a seat though  ;D
Logged
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline seabass

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,267
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2012, 10:56:38 pm »
i think you did a awesome job on that.very impressed.thanks for the look.
Logged
Middletown,Ohio

Offline NruJaC

  • Member
  • Posts: 54
    • Personal Blog
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2012, 11:06:00 pm »
That's awesome! I'm calling it a bow horse, and I too want more details. That's definitely something I'd like to build for myself.
Logged
Arjun from Reston, VA

Offline randman

  • Member
  • Posts: 647
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2012, 11:07:39 pm »
Awesome doohicky! Besides Keenan"s Stave Master, that's one of the more original shaving horses I've seen (and I've looked at a lot of them). And it uses readily available materials that almost any workshop would have in their scrap pile. I need to make one for myself (while I'm savin up for one of the "Masters") because I'm ruining my right shoulder by doing all my chopping, scraping and filing work with my right arm while holding with my left. Something like that would even out the work. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
Logged
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Offline ssgtchad

  • Member
  • Posts: 338
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2012, 11:16:48 pm »
That's nice!!! it beats my tuffbox, with a vice bolted to the lid!!
Logged
Always learning something new.

Offline mspink

  • Member
  • Posts: 213
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2012, 12:05:17 am »
"Looks like it works.  I would need a 2x12 for a seat though"

Thanks for the comments. An I couldnt believe it either but it does work. Got less than ten dollars worth of material in it. An the seat could be a bit better. But I am proud of it. Still dont know what I want to call it yet. Doohicky will work for now..
Logged
Aim small miss small!

Offline Hrothgar

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,477
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 12:11:06 am »
Very nice...if I wasn't so lazy I'd one a try    :) 
Logged
" To be, or not to be"...decisions, decisions, decisions.

Offline bow101

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,235
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2012, 01:16:06 am »
Looks good i would like to have one but no room.
There is nothing like looking down on your work at a different angle while shapping a bow, much better way to go rather than using a work bench.
That's my 2 bits worth. :D
Logged
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."  Joseph Campbell

Offline Rick Wallace

  • Member
  • Posts: 766
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2012, 01:31:54 am »
Nice doohickey!  Now make you a thingamabober !!   ;)
Logged
U.S.ARMY '86-'91  East Milton Fl.   Dont take yourself to seriously,,No one else does

Offline Youngboyer2(billyf)

  • Member
  • Posts: 487
  • Live by the man-née and the sa-wa.
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2012, 01:34:44 am »
Buildalong PLEASE
Logged
"You speak Treason!" "Fluently"-Robin of Locksley
When people ask "why didn't you do that the first time" you can be sure that they  have never made a bow before.

Offline jermcramp1

  • Member
  • Posts: 147
Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2012, 11:39:46 am »
DUDE THAT'S AWESOME!!! I guess PRIMITIVE is using what you have! Now I'm gonna have to make me one!
Logged
Even the dogs get the crumbs...
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »